Tili: Fo/k-Tn/es of fhe Kuva i Papua nx. 343 



wards given it to the young men. After the ccremony the pig would have been allowed so escape 

 into the bush. 



In the morning Mariinogére returned to life for a short lime, but his vvife remained dead. 

 He told the people to eut up the vvoman and pig, and collect some of their blood in a bamboo 

 tube and the rest in a basin. Some of the tlesh of both was to be divided among the men and 

 also fragments of the arrows, coconuts, firewood, and other things vvhich Mariinogére had used 

 in his former attempts to hold a inogtiru. The people dried the flesh till it was härd as wood, 

 and the mixture of the various „medicines" formed a „good poison", so much so that the smallest 

 quantity of it was sufficient to kill any man. 



At that time the women's vulva had no opening. In the night after the ceremony Ma- 

 riinogére took a bone dagger and the bamboo tube full of blood, and lighting a torch went into 

 the women's house. He bored a hole in each vvoman with the dagger and poured a little blood 

 into the hole. The women's menstruation ever since then comes from that blood. When the 

 women woke up in the morning one after another of them said, „I got blood! You got blood? 

 you got hole?" „Yes," they all whispered, „no you one man (alone) — everybody." Mariinogére 

 paired the people off, man with woman, and showed them vvhere they were to sleep. The next 

 night the vvhole house was gently rocking, and Mariinogére who knew what it all meant said, 

 „Oh, koböri (has connection with) woman now." The people did not know these things before, 

 Mariinogére taught them. In the morning they were all very pleased and happy. After a time the 

 women became pregnant and their breasts grevv large. (Cf. no. 7). 



The basin of blood was left in the bush, and after some time worms bred in it, and they 

 had arms and legs. Mariinogére had set some men to watch the basin, but one day they care- 

 lessly went away, and the worms escaped. Some of them became men and women and others 

 pigs. Since that time there are many pigs in the bush. Marûnogére's own people properly belong 

 to låsa, and thoSe who grew in the basin are the rest of the people on Kiwai Island. 



One night wings sprouted on the basin, and it began to tly about in the dark in the 

 shape oi a bird crying out, „Ôo. t'o.'" That cry can sometimes be heard by the people, and it 

 forebodes some very adverse event, generally a great sickness. The bird's name is oo. 



After the mogûrii ceremony had been performed with the pig, Mariinogére by way of 

 triai sent his men to fight another people, and this time they were victorious, killing many of the 

 enemy. Mariinogére was very pleased and said, „That right, first time I wrong. That good 

 fashion I been give you, you carry him all time. Catch him pig, make dance, send him back — 

 that fashion he finish now. This time you take fashion belong me, kill him pig." 



Mariinogére told the people to eut up his body after his death and keep some ot his 

 flesh and that of a mogiiru pig, for they were a strong „medicine". When mixed together and 

 given to the young men they would make them great vvarriors and successful harpooners, and 

 they could also be used as a poison for killing people. Låter on the people also learnt to put a 

 little of the same mixture (or a little of the pig's meat only) in the ground when planting their 

 gardens, and it is further used for Controlling the weather. 



When Mariinogére died, the people eut up and kept his tlesh, as they had been told, and 

 in some places they have preserved small pièces oi dried human tlesh vvhich is said to be that 

 of Marûnogére's body. 



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